The Fall - Singles Live Vol. 1: '78 - '81 Format:CD with a freshness that defines

with a freshness that defines an artist who is too excited by music-making to ever truly settle into any one sound

"Gothics" - a time before the word goth had even taken shape - believed in the do-it-yourself punk ethos that anyone could pick up an instrument

Eccentric Modern Soul delivers an expansive soundscape that feels both nostalgic and new

Orange Blood

The Fall - Singles Live Vol. 1: '78 - '81 Format:CD with a freshness that definesLabel: Bella Union Reissued 5 30 2025 "I have seen the madness in my area" sings Mr Smith on track 4 of this record. That sentence sums up a lot of The Fall's appeal to me: they looked at The North, the place I was brought up in, and saw something alien and inexplicable in it. Not "Gritty Northern Realism" but rather "Snotty Northern Sur realism". A welcome alternative to all that Hovis advert, brass band, "Ee by gum", "Last of the Summer Wine"